Apple II Concert :: June 25, 2011; 6:00 pm: Meeting of the Apple II owners/musicians; 8:00 pm: Concert :: Machine Project, 1200-D North Alvarado Street, Los Angeles, CA :: We are currently seeking Apple II owners to contribute to making this happen! Please contact machine [at] machineproject.com if you would like to participate!

The old Apple II, first introduced in 1977, was a revolutionary computer in many ways. Sound capabilities were not one of them. The Apple II’s sound system, unlike contemporaries such as the Atari 800 or Commodore 64, did not use a discreet sound chip, but rather a simple timer circuit that could be coaxed into creating square-wave tones. Most chiptune musicians tend to use sound-chip based systems, but there is a certain charm to square-wave tones. Some may define this charm as “annoyance.” Continue reading

Qwartz 8 | Sound in Process: New Media Arts category rewards innovative works integrating new technologies and media in their own creative process and involving sound creation in particular. Are accepted every artwork dealing, using, expressing and/or processing sonic material and presenting it through innovative and creative media and supports, such as sound art, audiovisual installations and live performances, real-time processing… Sound work published on commercial aids won’t be accepted. Digital works not dealing with sound (or a little) neither. Continue reading

Turbulence is the oldest and most consistent net art commissions site in the world. Now celebrating 15 years it has commissioned, exhibited and archived over 200 works. We are also in the process of archiving the collection at the Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. You can read about the project in Virtueel Platform Research: Archiving the Digital by Annet Dekker and Rachel Somers-Miles.

Make Music New York: Louis Andriessen’s “Hoketus” :: performed by Yarn/Wire :: June 21, 2011 from 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. :: at the New York Stock Exchange Building, 11 Wall Street, New York, NY :: Free.

In partnership with Make Music New York and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Darmstadt presents a performance of Louis Andreissen’s “Hoketus,” performed on the facade of the New York Stock Exchange by the extraordinary young ensemble Yarn/Wire.

“Hoketus is performed with amplification set at a high volume, the two groups of instruments situating themselves as far apart as possible from one another on stage, in this case across the street from each other. Melodies are only be built through the interlocking of single notes or chords, played in alternation between the groups using the Medieval technique of hocket. The work is “heavy, loud, dissonant, and brutal, showing influence from both hard rock and the works of Igor Stravinsky (one of Andriessen’s favorite composers)”. Continue reading

This performance will premiere new custom technology The Body Electric, developed through a residency at Harvestworks Media, with groundbreaking Kinect sensor technology by Microsoft, and acclaimed programmer and longtime collaborator Luke DuBois. Continue reading

Join artist Andrew Demirjian for a workshop where participants will design their own distinctive tones for sonifying the stock price fluctuations of the three largest music companies. Participants will audition and perform each other’s work working from Andrew’s audiovisual installation, The Week in Review, presented in Eyebeam’s Project Space (June 21-July 9). The control interface for Week in Review is a custom built LED clock interface and turntable, which enables a user to play through a week of stock price data. This is a workshop for Max/MSP and/or Ableton Live users.

This workshop is presented as related programming for Andrew Demirjian’s Eyebeam Project Space exhibition, The Week in Review.

To participate, subscribe in the schedule here Subscribe with your name, title and weblink. Plus, send an email to labgallery [at] gmail.com to confirm and obtain precision information about some technical matters so you will be able to play your online remote performance. Continue reading

Celebrate the launch of Louder Whisper – New Sound Art from India — a new online exhibition curated for CRiSAP by Meena Vari :: June 21, 2001; 6:30 pm :: Podium Lecture Theatre, London College of Communication, SE1 6SB. All are very welcome. Admission free.

Part of an ongoing collaboration between CRiSAP (Creative Research into Sound Arts Practice), University of the Arts London and CEMA (Centre for Experimental Media Arts), Srishti School of Arts, Design and Technology, Bangalore, India.

50 years ago this month (April 2008), the most celebrated electronic music studio in the world was established. We trace the history of the Radiophonic Workshop, talking to the composers and technical staff who helped to create its unique body of work — Steve Marshall

image: Before the Workshop: Daphne Oram manipulates a tape loop at Broadcasting House, watched by Frederick Bradnum, 1956 or ’57

I was 10 years old. As the last ‘whoosh’ of the Doctor Who theme dissolved into a wash of tape echo I sat transfixed by the light of the television, eagerly reading all of the end credits. “Wow!” I exclaimed. “I want to get a job in the BBC Radiophonic Workshop when I grow up!”

“I’m sorry, son,” said my father. “You won’t be able to do both.”Continue reading